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Lewis Robertson Fix the Fells About our upland path and conservation work in partnership Spring 2018 What is Fix the Fells? West Lakes —Lewis Robertson Fix the Fells (FTF) is a long-term ‘Following on from our last update we’ve now partnership currently led by the begun work on the Scarth gap project. The National Trust, working with 101 bags of stone flown at the tail end of last the Lake District National Park year are now making their way into the Authority, Friends of the Lake ground. Despite the weathers best efforts District, Natural England, we’re gradually working our way up the path Lake District Foundation and an with the much appreciated help of Fix the army of volunteers. Fells volunteers. This is easing us back into Scarth Gap fell life quite nicely after the legs have had a The partners are committed to bit of a rest over winter. helping repair and prevent further damage to this unique We’ve also been assisting the West Lakes valley ranger team with various tasks upland landscape and promote including a few larger fencing jobs. On Lingmell we replaced a lengthy section understanding and support for of old fence which contours the hill just below the Lingmell breast route. We its rich heritage. Most of the were gifted with some amazing views of a snow covered Wasdale which really work is funded by donations, are hard to beat. legacies and grants. We’ve also been continuing with hedge-laying. Finishing up at Field Head in Eskdale, we changed valleys to support a working holiday that had begun The National Trust specialist laying a hedge near our Wasdale ranger base. With little time left before we Upland Ranger Teams carry out go back onto the fell it’s all go to get our winter work finished. much of the repair work, usually focussing on a handful of major We’re looking forward to getting back on the fell and tackling some of the projects each year. large projects planned, in particular camping out with volunteers to rebuild the summit cairn on Scafell Pike, which holds the plaque marking England’s FTF volunteers come from highest war memorial. This is part of the Trust’s activity to commemorate the Cumbria and beyond and many centenary of the Great War and we’re all very honoured to be a part of it. different backgrounds. But Find out more at www.thenationaltrust.org.uk\thelakes they all have one thing in common, they love the fells! The term lengthsmen comes from medieval times when men would be paid to walk the length of the parish and repair any roads and unblock ditches. Last year, 100 volunteers gifted 2,237 days on the fells. The upland paths just wouldn’t be the same without their care. Our thanks to all. Wasdale valley Fix the Fells Spring 2018 Basecamp — Rob Clarke ‘The transition into spring has seen us deep in planning for the fell season ahead. Along with the South Lakes path team we had a site visit to Martcrag Moor in January to write a specification for the job for the annual upland ‘blitz’. This year, as well as the now regular visitors from Scotland, we will also be welcoming the upland rangers from Snowdonia. As we plan on building a path on sheep fleece again for the first time in a few years, everyone is very keen to get some hands on experience of this rarely used technique. It helped that the day of the site visit was Bowfell from Langdale Coombe glorious weather too… We’ve also been recruiting. Matt Tweed recently started in the new role of Fix the Fells Volunteer Development Ranger. Based at High Wray, the role is Lake District wide and will focus on working with the volunteer lengthsmen to tackle the many smaller path repair jobs, along with offering training to existing and new volunteers to ensure work is carried out to a consistent and high level of quality. It’s a very exciting proposition and a role we’re sure will help take Fix the Fells volunteering to the next level. Meanwhile, we’re working with our usual variety of volunteers at Basecamp. We’re repairing a low level path in the Greenburn valley, near Coniston which is just a short walk in. It’s a great chance to get the sort of volunteers involved with this kind of work who wouldn’t be able to get up onto the higher fells. Hopefully the weather will be a bit kinder than when we visited earlier in the year, when the extremely heavy rain demonstrated very well why the drainage needed repairing.’ Rainy Greenburn ‘2018 is a year of big projects for us. We finished off winter work over January and February, focussing on hedge -laying projects in the Hawkshead area. We’ve laid several hundred metres of hedge over a number of sites, quite a daunting task when you only have one chainsaw user amongst us all and lots of big trees! Hedging is traditional countryside conservation work, great for wildlife and good for people too. Hedges look lovely in the landscape and also form wildlife corridors between woodlands providing safe places for many species to live. In the past, the large amounts of cut wood generated would have been stuck back into the hedge to form a more effective stock barrier, and larger pieces may have been used for tool handles or sharpened and used as stakes. Today most hedges are wire fenced on both sides, but we still use a lot of the wood as stakes to keep the hedge tight and solid. We produced over five tons of firewood which will be used by Basecamp volunteers and in our NT holiday cottages. Hedge-laying This year we’re helping the Central Lakes Team on their huge Boredale Hause Coast to Coast project in Ullswater, which requires 380 bags of pitching stone to repair the path and bridleway. As nearby stone sources are home to protected species like Woolly Hair Moss, we’ve had to fill stone bags at locations much farther from the work site than normal. Thankfully having two teams meant that we could spread the effort and we filled all 380 bags in four weeks with helicopter lifts planned in April. Later in the year we’ll work on the bridleway near to Walna Scar with our working holiday groups, and help Basecamp prepare for the annual Fix The Fells Blitz.’ Bag filling Fix the Fells Spring 2018 Central and East Lakes—Pete Entwistle ‘Every year we have work to do at Aira Force, which is such a popular year round destination the paths need constant maintenance and repair. This past winter we’ve concentrated on a steep 25m section near to High Force, putting in pitching and drains. All the rock is sourced from the surrounding woodland and ‘power-barrowed’ to the site. The weather has been interesting, with a lot of snow making progress slow-going and some days impossible. Aira Force We spent a week at the start of February helping our Woodland Ranger Liam plant six hectares of scrub habitat on the lower slopes of Helm Crag, Grasmere. With other volunteers and NT staff we planted 1,800 trees including protecting each tree with a tree guard. The poor winter weather meant that everything had to be hand carried up onto site, that meant 1800 trees, tree guards and posts and then planted in a mixture of rain, sleet and snow – the only constant was the cold!! The mix of tree species will provide long-term benefits. Flowering tree species are great for bees and other insect pollinators, which in turn provide food for invertebrates, birds and mammals. The tree roots will help to hold the steep soils together and soak up water, reducing the amount of erosion that can Tree planting Helm Crag silt up streams and becks downstream, where native brown trout spawn. During the winter months peat restoration work has been taking place on NT land in partnership with Cumbria Wildlife Trust. The work has included raising water levels to help prevent the remaining peat from drying out and being lost to the harsh weather. We spent a day with Cumbria Wildlife helping to protect the exposed peat by planting heather to help prevent it drying out. After the quite challenging winter and early spring weather, we’re now looking forward to getting out on the fells in summer sunshine.’ Peat planting Matterdale Common North Lakes—Ted Everitt-Stewart ‘A few of you may be surprised to learn we have been working on Cat Bells again. This terrace path from Hawes End to Manesty really is an incredible busy path. Due to its easy gradient and accessibility by boat or bus, many people who cannot venture into the high fells walk this path and admire the views. We spend days here every year repairing erosion from wear and weather. This year we put in 10 stone drains that should need almost no maintenance in the future. Cat Bells drain They were a great challenge to build with the available stones, each one needing careful placement. Our thanks to South Lakes team who lent a hand with these. The Langstrath valley has long suffered from over-grazing and the land is now in poor condition. To begin to increase biodiversity and aid the health of the land we’ve already fenced our 80 hectares from grazing and last year planted 50 trees in cages. This year we have added to this with a further 100 trees.
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